Severe Thunderstorm Warning 78, NWS Grand Forks, ND

Issued

Jun 27, 1997, 11:48 PM CDT (04:48 UTC)

Expired

Jun 28, 1997, 12:15 AM CDT

In force

27 min

Issued by

NWS Grand Forks, ND

Area

Whole counties

County Clearwater County, MN

The Fargo/Grand Forks radar (KMVX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

827 
WUUS1 KFAR 280450 RRA
SVRFAR
MNC029-280515-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
1148 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 1997
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM CDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
 
IN NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
 
   ...NORTHERN CLEARWATER COUNTY
 
AT 1148 PM CDT..DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED 5
MILES NORTHWEST OF BAGLEY...OR 30 MILES NORTHWEST OF BEMIDJI...MOVING
TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. BAGLEY IS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM.
 
REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO
PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.
 
NG

NWS Grand Forks, ND wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 8:53 PM CDT, 2 hours 55 minutes earlier.

FORECAST DISCUSSION FOR EASTERN NORTH DAKOTA AND NORTHWEST MINNESOTA
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE EASTERN ND/GRAND FORKS ND
850 PM CDT FRI JUN 27 1997

HAVE NOT HAD ALOT OF TIME TO LOOK AT ANY RAPID UPDATE MODELS WITH
SEVERE WX. SFC FRONT FROM NW TIP OF MN TO BETWEEN BIS AND JMS SHOWING
VERY SLOW EASTWARD MOVEMENT AND PROGS KEEP BOUNDARY NEARLY STATIONARY
OVERNIGHT. AIRMASS AHEAD OF FRONT VERY UNSTABLE WITH ADAP LI'S TO -10
AND SFC TD'S AOB 70. 00Z INL SOUNDING HAD A B+ AROUND 3000 J/KG. ALSO
INL SOUNDING HAD K INDEX OF 34...PWAT 1.36 ALONG WITH GOOD THICKNESS
DIFLUENCE OVER MN. ALSO RESPECTABLE MOIST CONVERGENC JUST EAST OF
BOUNDARY. WILL KEEP FLASH FLOOD WATCH GOING ALONG WITH CHC OF TSRA. ONLY
Q4UESTIONABLE AREA IS IN DVL WHICH IS BEHIND FRONT. WILL SPLIT OFF AREA
AND DROP CHC OF TSRA. TEMPS SEEM IN THE BALL PARK...WILL TAKE A LAST
LOOK AT UPDATE TIME. WILL PROBABLY HOLD OFF ON UPDATE TILL FIRST WATCH
AREA EXPIRES.
VOELKER

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The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.